Managing design process complexity: A value-of-information based approach for scale and decision decoupling

2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007

Volumn 6 PART A, Issue , 2008, Pages 633-647

  Panchal, Jitesh H ^a   Paredis, Christiaan J J ^a   Allen, Janet K ^a   Mistree, Farrokh ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Datacenters; Design processes; Interaction patterns; Simplification; Simulation based design; Value of information

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DESIGNS; COOLING SYSTEM DESIGN; DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE (DAC); DESIGN DECISION-MAKING; DESIGN DECISIONS; DESIGN PROCESSES; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS (FR); IN ORDER; INTERACTION PATTERNS; INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS; METRICS (CO); MODEL DESIGN; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MULTI SCALING; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS; MULTI-SCALE PROBLEMS; PRODUCT PERFORMANCES; PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS; TECHNICAL CONFERENCES; VALUE OF INFORMATION (VOI);

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; ENGINEERING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEAD; MECHANIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); TECHNOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 44849119831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2007-35686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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